An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was starring Brad Pitt and since it was available on Amazon Prime, I thought I might as well check it out. He actually made this movie after his breakthrough in ‘Thelma & Louise’ but it would be pretty much his last really obscure movie. In fact, it did feel like the garbage that Pitt used to make at the beginning of his career. Anyway, right from the start, with its very lame introduction, the damned thing was pretty much doomed to fail. Basically, it was about some middle-aged housewife going through some kind of middle-life crisis who was fantasizing about her high-school boyfriend. Usually, middle-life crisis stories focus on men so it was at least refreshing that it was dealing with a woman for once. However, the quirky cheeky tone was just completely wrong. I mean, at the end of the day, there is absolutely nothing funny about a woman (or a man) contemplating adultery while they are actually in a perfectly happy marriage so making a comedy about this topic would probably never work and it certainly didn’t here. The bottom line was that Kathy and Peter were both terribly boring which was something Peter did accept while Kathy went on this cringe-inducing wild goose chase. They kept saying that they loved each other but the lack of communication between them was rather alarming and not a good omen for the future of their marriage. Coming back on Brad Pitt, even though his character was around 25 years old, the guy was actually already in his 30’s so he was definitely a late bloomer, that’s for sure (to put it in perspective, at the same age, Timothée Chalamet already had 3 Academy Award nominations). Sure, the guy was gorgeous but it was pretty much the only thing he had to offer at the time but, on the other hand, he wasn’t really helped by the material he was provided. Anyway, to conclude, my rating was actually rather generous here, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it. 

5/10